Bonnie Berger

Bonnie Berger

Born	Bonnie Anne Berger 1964 or 1965 (age 59–60)
Education	Brandeis University (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Spouse	F. Thomson Leighton
Awards	SIAM Fellow (2022) National Academy of Sciences, Member (2020) AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture Award (2020) AMS Fellow (2019) ISCB Senior Scientist Award (2019) AIMBE Fellow (2016) American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member (2012) ISCB Fellow (2012) ACM Fellow (2003) Technology Reviews TR100 Award (1999) International Congress of Mathematicians Invited Speaker (1998) Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award (1997) Machtey Award (1989)
Scientific career
Fields	Bioinformatics
Thesis	Using Randomness to Design Efficient Deterministic Algorithms (1990)
Doctoral advisor	Silvio Micali
Doctoral students	Manolis Kellis Serafim Batzoglou Lior Pachter Mona Singh

Website	people.csail.mit.edu/bab

Bonnie Anne Berger (born 1964 or 1965) is an American mathematician and computer scientist, who works as the Simons professor of mathematics and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the head of the Computation and Biology group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Her research interests are in algorithms, bioinformatics and computational molecular biology.